this is a freewell wide and anamorphic lens and one of the coolest things is that they
also include nd filters that clip to the front so you can keep your shutter speed
at the right level for video and get the proper amount of motion blur
hey my name is jake and i create content here to help solo creators on the go so i test and
review lots of drones cameras lenses in places like this here in alaska and i give you tips
and tutorials on how to use them today we're testing the anamorphic and wide filter from
freewell with the nd filters that they include in the kit but first we're going to jump in
with the standard mavic 3 uh lens and nd filters and get some shots and some photos
and then we'll grab some with the wide and the anamorphic and figure out why you might want
to use a wide lens or an anamorphic lens on a drone as opposed to just using the regular lens
that comes with the drone so we'll get some shots here obviously in a beautiful location
disclaimer free well sent these to me but they don't get any input into this video they're not
paying me beyond that they sent me these nd filters and they don't get to see this video
before it's launched so take that for what you will first thing i want to do is get a really low
flying shot over uh some of this gravel bar area and kind of give you an idea of what it feels
like with the motion and the speed of flying low over something one thing that's really helpful
for uh getting the feeling of motion is obviously being close to stuff but having a wider lens like
this the regular standard mavic lens here here with the wide-angle lens you get a lot more
feeling of motion and movement and just the speed because the wider the lens goes the more you see
stuff ripping by and the distortion factor that happens out toward the edges of a wide angle lens
gives you a feeling of stuff moving by much faster than it actually is so if you're wanting
to get a lot of motion a lot of feeling flying low but also flying and using a wide angle lens
like this uh wide angle lens from freewell will give you a lot more feeling of movement and motion
and speed when you're flying close to stuff and the same thing applies when you're doing an orbit
a real low orbit of somebody or something you just get a lot of feeling of motion and movement
when you're real low to a subject just like this here and now you can see here's the orbit with
the wide angle lens it just gives you a lot more i'm flying in the same area i'm flying
the same speed i'm flying about the same flight path or at least as close as i could get to it
i know because i had a lot of little trees and branches to give me a good marker
but you can see that it just gives you a completely different feeling not only does it push
your subject back in the frame or further away and of course let it a lot more information but
it definitely gives you the feeling of a lot more movement especially in the foreground maybe not
quite so much in the background but the foreground definitely feels like it's moving a lot faster so
one thing you might notice too there are a lot of times when you want to take a photo of something
but you can't get high enough because of maybe you can't fly over 400 feet or above 400 feet little
something so i'm at 300 feet right now but just for the sake of this i get a lot of small aircraft
that fly through here so i'm gonna snap a photo of this blue sinkhole here uh in the water might see
and just center it up a little bit
and now you see with the regular lens this is a blue sinkhole and
then when we switch to the wide angle lens there's quite a bit of difference
so there's a photo same height same place there's one thing i noticed in photo mode
that we'll talk about in a minute with the nd filters and the wide lens uh we'll we'll
talk about that in a minute that's a little bit of a downside but if you're mostly doing
photos it's not a big deal now we're going to test out the anamorphic filter now anamorphic
filters anamorphic lenses period are very stylized things so you might like them you might not
cool thing is it comes as part of the kit it works just like the others you have to
squeeze it in post now this doesn't have a lot of squeeze i can't remember exactly off the top
of my head but i think it's like 1.2 ish anyway it'll be linked right down here so you can see
but it just gives you a little bit of a different look a little bit of a different flavor and in the
case of like being out here you can't really see like the lens flares that make anamorphic kind of
what anamorphic is known for we'll see what we can get but it does give you just sort of this wider
more cinematic feeling footage uh than just a regular drone uh look the cool thing about both
these lenses is the telephoto lens the telephoto camera on the mavic 3 still works there's no
obstruction so you can still use that without worrying about it even with the nd filters on
it doesn't obstruct the view of the telephoto camera at all which is great they just pop on
and pop off just like the regular nd filter it's on there so it snaps on just like everything else
moves just like the other one great no obstruction of movement and then we grab the nd32 and they
just clip on the front like they have little clips on each side make sure that's nice and secure
obviously we don't want this falling off there are a couple of things you need to be aware of
using these lenses and the nd filters one is that there are some like weird reflections in
photo mode and some vignetting in photo mode not in video mode i haven't seen it in video mode at
all but in photo mode there are some weird little reflections and some vignetting that happens with
the nd filters you take the nd filters off it's fine you just have to adjust your shutter speed
but if you're shooting video then i definitely recommend using the nd filters to get the proper
amount of motion blur if you want to know about nd filters in motion blur click or tap right here
put together the whole video about it and walk you through why you want to keep your motion blur your
shutter speed and your frame rate set to certain settings so now i'm traveling for work and one
thing i wanted to note is actually there's a lot less vignetting than i originally thought part
of that was to do to me not installing the nd filter quite correctly it actually snapped on a
little further than i realized when i was doing my original work with the nd filter there is a little
bit of vignetting in both video and photo modes but it's significantly less than some of the clips
you see here so here are some other shots that you can see where you can see a little bit more of the
difference another thing to be aware of is that using these lenses and the nd filters although
not so much the nd filters does affect the white balance so you need to change your white balance
accordingly it's not a lot a couple hundred kelvin two three a hundred depending on the situation
you're shooting in but do be aware that the coating on these lenses you've gotta adjust your
white balance a little bit just to make sure that you're set properly and everything looks right
and one more thing because i'm traveling i had the opportunity here to test the wide from
freewell against the wide from dji and you can see the differences between those two lenses here
the difference in field of view not as big as i thought there would be there definitely is a
little bit but the other thing is that if you're going to film video at all with the wide lens and
you need to keep your shutter speed set where it needs to be then the only option really is
the freewell wide lens which i think is a great option considering the price difference 199
dollars for the free wall kit which comes with four nd filters the wide and the anamorphic lens
179 dollars for the dji wide lens it makes it a very compelling option to be able to give yourself
a lot of different options when you're out filming this is the set you get this is the kit you get
comes in this nice little box here you've got the nd8 nd16 nd32 and nd64 and then the wide
lens and the anamorphic lens nice little magnetic closing clip and i leave a cleaning cloth in here
because these nd filters are so small around the edges which is good they need to be lightweight
um but i do see i tend to get a little bit of fingerprints on them but leaving
a little clean cloth in there makes it easy and then this whole thing packs nicely in my
camera bag or in my case with my mavic 3. you want to learn more about how to improve your
drone videos or photos click or tap right there i put together a playlist i'll see in one of those
videos as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join my live stream
wednesday nights at 4 pm alaska time 8 pm eastern i'll see you again soon in the next video cheers